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Giovanni Pacini wrote some 74 operas, and this is not only the first recording but the first ever public performance of Il convitato di pietra (The Stone Guest), written for private performance in 1832.
It is based on the same tale used by Mozart for Don Giovanni but without the character Donna Elvira. While Pacini’s version is scored for chamber orchestra and draws on arias from his other operas, many of which were doubtless family favourites, it nonetheless demands bel canto singing of the highest order particularly for Don Giovanni, Zerlina and Ficcanaso.
For this recording Pacini’s manuscript score and the original performing parts, as well as the partially preserved hand-written libretto, were used as the basis for reconstructing the entire work.
Artists
Leonardo Cortellazzi (Don Giovanni), Geraldine Chauvet (Donn’Anna), Zinovia-Maria Zafeiriadou (Zerlina), Ugo Guagliardo (Masetto), Giorgio Trucco (Duca Ottavio), Ugo Guagliardo (Il Commendatore) & Giulio Mastrototaro (Ficcanaso)
Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir & Cluj Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Daniele Ferrari
March 2011
Leonardo Cortellazzi's light tenor is agile. It lacks some bloom, but he introduces some pleasing shading of his tone in the serenade. He gives a lively interpretation in all his scenes...Ficcanaso is the strong-voiced Giulio Mastrototaro, who nimbly rattles through the catalogue aria.
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